| 词条 | Thomas Potter (died 1759) |
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Thomas Potter (1718–1759) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1759. Potter was born in 1718, the second son of John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury. He matriculated, aged 13, at Christ Church, Oxford in 1731, graduating B.A. in 1735, and was admitted to the Middle Temple.[1] Through his father's interest, he was able to secure the Recordership of Bath, a lucrative office. Potter married firstly Anne Manningham, daughter of Rev. Thomas Manningham, rector of Slinfold, Sussex on 17 February 1740. Anne died on 4 January 1744 and he married secondly a Miss Lowe of Brightwell, Oxfordshire on 14 July 1747.[2] From his second marriage he acquired Segenhoe Manor at Ridgmont, near Woburn, Bedfordshire. [3] Potter was a recognised member of the Hellfire Club, in Buckinghamshire, founded by Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer and acquired a reputation as a leading rake. Potter was a friend of John Wilkes, whom he considered as something of a protégé. He was later accused of corrupting Wilkes who had been relatively innocent until that point.[4] He was believed to be the author of Essay on Woman, a crude parody of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. The authorship of this was later attributed to John Wilkes, when it was read out in the House of Lords, during his expulsion from parliament in 1764. In 1747 Potter was elected as Member of Parliament for St Germans in Cornwall. In 1754 he was elected as MP for Aylesbury, a seat controlled by the powerful Grenville family with whom he was associated from then on. In 1756 he became a Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, another lucrative post, which did not require him to move to Ireland.[5] He was returned as MP for Okehampton in 1757. Politically he was aligned with William Pitt and was his devoted follower. He was a staunch supporter of Britain's participation in the Seven Years War. He tried to interest his son Thomas in finding a seat in Parliament.[2] Potter was in ill health for a long time, suffering in particular from gout.[6] In 1759 he died at his residence in Segenhoe at the age of forty one and was buried in nearby Segenhoe churchyard.[7][8] He left a son and two daughters, one of which married Malcolm MacQueen, to whom Potter's estates passed. Bibliography
References1. ^{{alox2|title=Potter, Thomas (2)}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box2. ^1 {{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/potter-thomas-1718-59|title= POTTER, Thomas (?1718-59), of Ridgmont, Beds. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 4 November 2017}} 3. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp320-323#h3-0003|title=RIDGMONT|publisher=British History Online|accessdate=22 January 2018}} 4. ^Cash p.29-36 5. ^Cash p.44 6. ^Brown p.125 7. ^Brown p.188 8. ^Cash p.55 | title=Member of Parliament for St Germans | years=1747–1754 | with=Richard Eliot 1747–48 | with2=Edward Craggs-Eliot 1748–54 | before=John Hynde Cotton James Newsham | after=Edward Craggs-Eliot Anthony Champion }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Aylesbury | years=1754–1757 | with=John Willes | before=The Earl of Inchiquin Edward Willes | after=John Willes John Wilkes }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Okehampton | years=1757–1759 | with=Robert Vyner | before=Robert Vyner William Pitt | after=Robert Vyner George Brydges Rodney }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Thomas}} 8 : 1718 births|1759 deaths|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|Members of the Middle Temple|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall|British MPs 1747–54|British MPs 1754–61 |
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